Day 273/365 #photooftheday Flowers in the park. Last day of September. #flowersontuesday

Day 270/365 #photooftheday Can’t run parkrun at the moment, so I volunteered. Turns out the front runners look like this. #parkrun

Day 268/365 #photooftheday Autumnal spring cleaning.

Day 262/365 #photooftheday Nature to the left of me Protest to the right Here I am, stuck in the middle.

Day 256/365 #photooftheday Today’s flowers.

Day 255/365 #photooftheday Mirror Mirror.

#ITT30 FREE EXHIBITION at Rich Mix, 2-14 September Portraits by Lizzie Coombes aka @bettylawless.bsky.social of people connected with ITT Introducing artist KENGO who we first met on #MakingTracks Part of 30th anniversary celebrations – find out more: bit.ly/ITT30

#ITT30 EXHIBITION at Rich Mix, 2-14 Sept 📸 Portraits by Lizzie Coombes aka @bettylawless.bsky.social of people connected with ITT Introducing legendary ITT project musician Charles Stuart 💙💛 Part of our 30th anniversary celebrations supported by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/ITT30

#ITT30 EXHIBITION at Rich Mix, 2-14 Sept 📸 Portraits by Lizzie Coombes aka @bettylawless.bsky.social of people connected with ITT Introducing our inspirational Artistic Director Sara Lee 💙💛 Part of our 30th anniversary celebrations supported by #ArtsCouncilEngland 👉 bit.ly/ITT30

Day 254/365 #photooftheday An afternoon and evening of making portraits — some old friends, some new faces.

Day 221/365 #photooftheday Sunflowers are happiness on a stem.

Day 218/365 #photooftheday My 350th parkrun, celebrated with friends. Time to bow out of limping round the course and switch to volunteering—until the day comes when a new knee might let me run again. #parkrun

Day 210/365 #photooftheday I saw a sad thing.

Day 209/365 #photooftheday After yesterday’s photograph of me at my kitchen table a year ago, here it is today—full of glorious summerness.

Day 208/365 #photooftheday A year ago today Jude took my portrait at the kitchen table. Today she got the photographs developed.

Day 207/365 #photooftheday Chicken in a basket.

Day 205/365 #photooftheday It’s been a day—but I’ve finally reached the part where I can relax, and this outdoor spot looks like just the place to kick back.

Day 202/365 #photooftheday ‘The boys are back in town.’

Day 219/365 #photooftheday Riley + Eva = Kitchen table turned makeup table. One of my favourite equations.

Day 218/365 #photooftheday On the way to a poetry evening I see the abandon chairs of a student house with its empty summer windows. The absence of presence.

Day 212/365 #photooftheday The view from the pub…

Day 210/365 #photooftheday Clifftop sunset. Watching silhouettes play a game I don’t know the rules to—but the shapes are pretty good.

Day 209 #photooftheday Martin Parr’s breakfast.

Day 208/365 #photooftheday It’s come home (again). #eurosfinal

Day 207/365 #photooftheday A tangle of summer at the coast.

Day 204/365 #photooftheday Working from home means more time with Rigby—though he’s not entirely convinced. There are walks to take, sticks to chase, balls to fetch… and absolutely no good reason to be indoors.

Day 203/365 #photoaday Held my camera up for 119 minutes. Worth all the seconds. #euros

Day 202/365 #photoaday One wet bee on one wet plant while walking one wet dog.

Day 200/365 #photoaday Kicked off the weekend with Pride parkrun—or parkwalk for me and barkrun for Rigby. Here we are at the finish line, posing for the camera while Rigby takes a small rest. #parkrun

Day 198/365 #photoaday This is Cheetah—the studio dog where I’ve been making portraits in London for an exhibition. I also met my Finlay after work for his birthday, but drinks pics can’t compete with a cute dog on a chair.

Day 197/365 #photoaday Front seat. Top deck. London bus. Best seat in the city.

Day 195/365 #photoaday Happy birthday Jude!

Day 192/365 #photoaday Living near water is a gift for dogs on days like these. Earlyish morning, we’re down there, and just before a hot dog makes a splash, I catch the stillness and colour of the day ahead. I love summer and the gentleness of the shade.

Day 191/365 #photoaday Man alive, number 5.

Day 190/365 #photoaday “I don’t know why I’m smiling behind here!” My lovely neighbour, framed behind her fabulous portrait.

Day 189/365 #photoaday Blue sky overhead, blue sky in my head.

Day 188/365 #photoaday Night. Light.

Day 187/365 #photoaday It’s all been happening this weekend, yesterday the farm fair, today the Ridge Festival. Rigby wasn’t impressed by the crowds on his walking route. Carrying a stick through it was tough. Photographing it while holding a dog carrying a stick, tougher.

Day 186/365 #photoaday Listening, watching, and catching up with friends at the Meanwood Valley Urban Farm summer fair—summer sounds and familiar faces.

Day 185/365 #photoaday WARNING When the plants take over The only thing sinking is the sign

Day 184/365 #photoaday What a treat to be on a writing retreat.

Day 183/365 #photoaday I’m on a writing retreat. I spotted a writing treat.

Day 182/365 #photoaday On the eve of a haircut, Jude and I recreated Femme au Bouquet 2025/1922 as a farewell to her very long hair. Zoom in on the phone to spot how similar they are. Except for the phone bit of course.

Day 181/365 #photoaday And just like that, June was done. A long, hot day wrapped up with some long, hot shadows and a long-haired, hot dog.

Day 180/365 #photoaday The look of a cat who’s clocked you’re a ‘dog person’.

Day 179/365 #photoaday Today’s parkrun tail walker came with an actual tail—and helped collect the kilometre markers on the final lap. Good boy, Rigby.

Day 178/365 #photoaday Being good and doing my knee strength work. Not fun, definitely not comfy—but it gives me a bit of control, and the knowledge it’ll eventually help with recovery is what’s keeping me coming back.

Day 177/365 #photoaday Not the best photo I’ve taken, but easily one of the best-smelling ones while making it.

Day 176/365 #photoaday Volunteered at my run club’s Summer Mile race tonight. I was on safety pin duty—essential kit for keeping your number on the front. Though from where I was standing, I mostly saw the backs.

Day 175/365 #photoaday One of my favourite pictures in the Golden Acre Park café. I remember looking at it with my kids, imagining how it must’ve been when it looked like that. It’s still fabulous, but the park in that photo looks like it had a different kind of fun.